EasyOCR is a font-dependent printed character reader based on a template matching algorithm. It allows training on the font to be recognized by showing sample images of all possible characters. For this reason, it is able to read any kind of short text (serial numbers, labels? such as those found in industrial environments.

The training phase uses an interactive utility to show samples of the characters and store them in a font file. Such a font editor is available, ready-made, in EasyAccess. Anyway, EasyOCR provides the means for you to write your own, custom, font editor.

EasyOCR provides three standard fonts: OCR-A, OCR-B and Semi. This avoids a training phase to recognize a text using one of these fonts.